Clayton Rawson | Death from a Top Hat, 1938

Clayton Rawson

Death from a Top Hat. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1938

FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, 8vo, two photographic illustrations including frontispiece, original blue cloth lettered in black, inscription to title-page, bookseller's stamp to rear fixed endpaper, spine slightly faded, binding slightly soiled, dust-jacket creased on upper panel and slightly frayed at extremities

A locked-room mystery novel which introduces the character of The Great Merlini. The book was filmed in 1939 as Miracles for Sale.

LITERATURE

Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone

PROVENANCE

The Alexis Galanos Collection